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If you found yourself struggling to understand President Obama’s 10th-grade-level oil spill speech, Stephen Colbert is here to help you out. “Mr. President, your flowery verbiage is opaque and perplexing,” he said last night on the Report. “I’m sorry, I meant to say, your talky words make ears mad.” He then turned the speech into a children’s book, which of course required a character named “Spot” (the oil spill)…and another named Dick (Tony Hayward, of course).

So the speech was written at a tenth grade level? It is no wonder so many Republicans found it so difficult to follow, it would be hard for a preschool level mentality to grasp a 10th grade level piece of material I venture to guess

BCto

Jun 18, 2010 2:24 PM CDT

Being the president is the hardest job in the world, every single little thing gets over analyzed and blown out of proportion by either media or the public. When he targets one group, the others get up in arms about it. All ideas get put down by the opposing party because american politicians don't know anything about politics or about being professional adults. If I had the power and money and support to become president I would use it to start my own company and get rich like Bush did because its a lost cause actually trying to govern you people.